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Chapter 112 – The Age After Answers

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The transition was so gradual that historians would later argue about when it actually began.

Some pointed toward the emergence of unresolved-state communities. Others highlighted the developmental shifts among younger generations. A few insisted the decisive moment occurred much earlier, when Bastion first abandoned optimization as an absolute objective and began treating uncertainty as something to accompany rather than eliminate.

None of them were entirely wrong.

None of them were entirely r
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    The transition was so gradual that historians would later argue about when it actually began.Some pointed toward the emergence of unresolved-state communities. Others highlighted the developmental shifts among younger generations. A few insisted the decisive moment occurred much earlier, when Bastion first abandoned optimization as an absolute objective and began treating uncertainty as something to accompany rather than eliminate.None of them were entirely wrong.None of them were entirely right.The truth was more difficult to identify because it lacked the shape people usually associated with historical change.The old age did not end through collapse.It ended through irrelevance.Humanity simply became less interested in answers.Not because answers stopped mattering.Because they stopped being enough.For centuries, civilization had treated knowledge as a ladder. Every discovery led upward toward greater understanding. Every solved problem brought humanity closer to mastery ov

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